Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1986, 4:59 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 1986, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1986, 5:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cloud County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cloud, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 231 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 11:06 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 28, 4:24 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 420 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 1986 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... AT 415 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND LARGE THUNDER/ STORMS IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA WAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM YORK NEBRASKA SOUTHWEST THROUGH OSBORNE KANSAS TO HAYS. THE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR LINCOLN KANSAS. ADCOCK
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 457 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 1986 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... AT 457 PM CST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM BRAINARD NEBRASKA TO 20 MILES WEST OF HAYS KANSAS TO 10 MILES EAST OF MARYSVILLE KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR MANKATO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSBORNE 10 MILES SOSUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA AND 10 MILES NORTH OF WASHINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR, STAPLETON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 50 min |
| Sep 28, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 54 min |
| Sep 28, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 63 min |
| Sep 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell, Mitchell | 60 min |
| Sep 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.